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esuli · 11-14-2011, 11:48 AM

Hi all,

this is my first post on the Forum, though I read it from a relatively long time.
I have unsuccessfully searched on Google before posting here.

I have reinstalled my computer after a crash and I have lost my Calibre library.
I still have all my books on my PRS-650, each one properly tagged and with metadata properly corrected by hand along the time. It was a long activity I routinely carried out with Calibre before the crash, and I would like not to waste it.

Now I have reinstalled Calibre and I have connected the PRS-650 to it. Calibre correctly shows all of my books on the device, with my hand-assigned tags and metadata.
So I thought that it would be enough to copy all the books back from the device to the library to have it rebuilt.

But if I select all of them (or just one, is the same) and click "Add books to library" the library is not populated with the correct tags and metadata.
Metadata fields in library are populated the same way it results from adding just a book file from a directory on the hard disk, metadata info on the device is ignored (even though Calibre itself shows them to me).

Is there a way to import metadata back from the device to Calibre?

Thank you for any help you can provide me,

Andrea.

11-14-2011, 11:48 AM	#1
esuli Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: PRS-650	Rebuilding library from device Hi all, this is my first post on the Forum, though I read it from a relatively long time. I have unsuccessfully searched on Google before posting here. I have reinstalled my computer after a crash and I have lost my Calibre library. I still have all my books on my PRS-650, each one properly tagged and with metadata properly corrected by hand along the time. It was a long activity I routinely carried out with Calibre before the crash, and I would like not to waste it. Now I have reinstalled Calibre and I have connected the PRS-650 to it. Calibre correctly shows all of my books on the device, with my hand-assigned tags and metadata. So I thought that it would be enough to copy all the books back from the device to the library to have it rebuilt. But if I select all of them (or just one, is the same) and click "Add books to library" the library is not populated with the correct tags and metadata. Metadata fields in library are populated the same way it results from adding just a book file from a directory on the hard disk, metadata info on the device is ignored (even though Calibre itself shows them to me). Is there a way to import metadata back from the device to Calibre? Thank you for any help you can provide me, Andrea.